Slug Generator
Turn any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug.
The Slug Generator turns any title or phrase into a clean, URL-friendly slug. It lowercases the text, strips symbols, and replaces spaces with hyphens for safe permalinks.
What is a Slug?
A slug is the URL-friendly version of a title or phrase, used in web addresses to keep them short, readable, and easy for search engines to interpret. It contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, with spaces and special characters removed or replaced. Well-formed slugs make URLs simpler to type, remember, and share, and they help with SEO because search engines treat hyphens as word separators, so a slug like "best-running-shoes" is understood as three distinct terms rather than one unbroken string. Consistent slugs also make links easier to read in search results and on social platforms.
For example, the title "How to Use This Tool: A Complete Guide" becomes the slug "how-to-use-this-tool-a-complete-guide", with every word in lowercase and joined by single hyphens. This format is supported across web servers and content management systems without encoding problems, so the same slug works whether the site is static, built with a framework, or generated by a CMS. Many developers rely on exactly this pattern when generating routes for blog posts, product pages, and tags, which is why consistency matters: the same input should always produce the same predictable output.
Under the hood, the generator normalizes Unicode by decomposing accented characters with NFD, which splits a character such as é into a base letter plus a combining accent that is then stripped, so "café" becomes "cafe". Symbols and runs of spaces are replaced with a single hyphen, and any leftover double hyphens are collapsed, guaranteeing a clean, stable result no matter the input language. The approach works well for Latin-based scripts, Cyrillic, and many other writing systems that use diacritics, making it a solid fit for internationalized applications where titles arrive in several different languages.
How to use this Slug Generator
- Enter your title or phrase in the text area above.
- The slug is generated automatically as you type.
- Click the result box to copy the slug to your clipboard.
- The tool handles accented characters, symbols, and spaces correctly.
FAQ
What is a slug?
A slug is a URL-friendly version of a title or phrase. It contains only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, with spaces and special characters removed or replaced.
How does it handle accents and symbols?
The tool uses Unicode NFD normalization to decompose accented characters (e.g., 'é' becomes 'e' + combining accent), then removes the combining marks. Symbols and spaces are replaced with hyphens.
Does the slug generator make any network requests?
No. This tool runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript. The conversion happens locally on your device with no network requests.
Is this generator free?
Yes, completely free with no limits on usage or conversions.